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Tuesday, December 04, 2007

SW City Pizza Vacuum Filled

The Suburban Journal is reporting that a couple from South City is opening a family friendly pizza and beer restaurant in the Southtown Centre at Kingshighway and Chippewa. The restaurant is moving into a 3200 square foot end space across from Starbuck's and Stone Cold Creamery.

The absence of a family friendly pizza place in Southwest City has been a major void in restaurant choices for years. Aside from the semi-new Talayna's franchise at Holly Hills and Gravois, there is no place south of Chippewa and west of Gravois within the city proper where you can buy a beer and a pizza in a primarily pizza house format. That's a huge, underserved market.

Per the Journal story, the new proprietors, noting the clientele frequenting the Starbuck's, see a major untapped market awaiting their new restaurant.

I definitely would not consider Black Thorn family-friendly. It's a smoky bar atmosphere, last time I went there. Pizza's not too bad, but I can't tolerate the smoke due to allergies, so I have only been once. (Even with it being a takeout order, the smoke was so intense that I had stuffy sinuses and itchy/watery eyes for a couple of days.)

Am looking forward to trying Pizza-a-go-go, which is a couple blocks south of Arsenal on Ivanhoe.